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THE ENVIRONMENT
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STATE
GORE SAYS ENVIRONMENT of the STATES
ENDED MAYAN CULTURE West Virginia The odds of a driver
This month’s buzz
hitting a deer are higher here than in any other
IN ADDITION TO
pioneering the
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state: 1 in 45, as reported in 2008. The odds are up
Legislative Branch: On
from 2007, when they were 1 in 57.
Jan. 3 the 111th U.S.
Internet and sav-
Congress, with Democratic
ing the world
majorities in both the House
from global
and the Senate, begins its
warming, Al
two-year term.
WARMING UP Politics was a
Gore has become
prelude to Gore’s new gigs.
something of an
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Inauguration Day: Jan. 20
ends George W. Bush’s
presidency at noon as Barack
amateur historian. And he’s using his new-
Obama is offi cially sworn in
found expertise to offer an opinion on what led
as the 44th commander in
to the demise of Mayan civilization.
chief.
As the former vice president reported on his
“Al’s Journal” blog: “A new study suggests the
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Dr. King’s Day: Jan. 19
commemorates the slain
Mayan civilization might have collapsed due to
civil rights icon, who would
environmental disasters.”
have turned 80 within a week
MASSACHUSETTS Enrollment at
of the fi rst black becoming
Gore goes on to cite an article in Human
public universities and colleges increased
U.S. president.
Ecology stating that Mayan ecosystems “were
more than 4 percent in the fall of 2008,
destroyed by mismanagement or were trans-
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BCS Bowl: The national
rising to an all-time high of 176,315 — the
championship game to
highest in a decade. The search for lower
formed by global climatic shifts.”
determine college football’s
tuition costs was cited as a factor.
Gore’s point: You’d better trade in that gas-
top team will be played Jan. 8
guzzling SUV or America could get wiped off
at Dolphin Stadium in Miami
Gardens, Fla.
Washington State offi ce workers in the
the map like the ancient Mayans.
Department of Community Trade and Economic
Development and the Department of Veterans
Affairs have moved to a four-day, 10-hour work
week in response to the energy crisis.
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